Hi Login123
Sorry for the late reply. I was busy with exams and work for the past week. The good news is at least i finished my exam lol. Anyway, to keep you guys inform. I have some good news actually. The trouble hard disk is from my new laptop from last year. Before I switched laptop, I did have a copy of everything from my old laptop. so if i cannot repair this hard disk. the worse case scenario will only be last 1 year of my data. it is not alot but still not good. anyway, so the other day i took a gamble and used Spinrite on my hard disk. it did not give me any warning when i first switch on Spinrite. It mentioned that in Spinrite website that if my drive is about to die, it will be a big red warning when i switch on Spinrite. so i used Spinrite and it stuck at 0.3% for like 13 hours and didnt go anyway. in accordance with Spinrite website. it is normal that it could take a long time for Spinrite to get through 1% of repairing and i can stop anytime for spinrite and resume the recovery after with Spinrite. After 13 hours of waited and no success, so i stopped spinrite and try to restart it again. it GAVE me a big red warning my drive is about to die and do not use Spinrite when I restarted the software so i stopped at the point. Funny enough i was trying hard to get my 1 year data back and someone from the web mentioned that if I seeing RAW disk in windows for my NTFS partition. it usually is my boot sector or partition table corrupt. it can easily fix with software like Testdisk. I ended up using EaseUS Partition Recovery but no success. and I found a way to boot up my computer with Parte Magic. i dont know if i have mentioned this or not. when i was booting up the drive in Ubuntu. it recognized the drive and partition but it wont let me mount it. I started Testdisk in Parte Magic. it was the same. i can see the partition letter in Parte Magic but wont let me mount it. I accidentally opened Partition Editor inside Parte Magic and it showed my RAW Disk partition as NTFS in Partition Editor but there is an explanation mark next to my NTFS partition.
i didnt go any further after. i was wondering. will i be able to use Partition Editor with Parte Magic to make my drive visible again in Windows so that I can copy out my data?